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CICHLID^E. 



Caudal with deep crescentic notch. Caudal peduncle 1^ times as long 

 as deep. Scales denticulate, 36-38 jgjjj; lateral lines j^Ejg, the upper 

 extending to the caudal peduncle, or to the root of the caudal. Grey 

 or olive above, white beneath ; four yellow stripes along each side ; 

 pectorals yellowish, other fins dark grey or blackish. 



Total length 100 millim. 



Lake Tanganyika. — Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



1. One o£ the types. Moliro. Capt. Lemaire (C). 



2. Ad. Sumbu. Dr. W. A. CunniDgton (C). 



3. Ad. Lo£u R. 



Fig. 250. 



Paratilapia furcifera. 

 Type (Tr. Z. S. 1S98). 



48. PARATILAPIA FURCIFERA. 



Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898, p. 14, pi. iv. fig. 1, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, 

 p. 425 (1901) ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, p. 273; Bouleng. 

 Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii. 1906, p. 563. 



Depth of body nearly equal to length of head, 3 times in total length. 

 Head twice as long as broad ; snout with curved upper profile, rounded, 

 broader than long, as long as or a little shorter than postocular part of 

 head, as long as or a little shorter than eye, which is 2§ to 3 times in 



